In this thread I shall post a few silly pictures of mosses, lichens, ferns, and mushrooms that have pleased me in recent walks around my garden and the PNW.
This first one is from my garden: a little clumpet of things growing on a lilac limb.
For some reason I thought this was sometime last year but I see I posted this to my site in January. My sense of time is way off these days. LOL I swear I have not taken #Mushrooms but I hope you enjoy this one.
Boost please British folk. Woods here are FULL of death caps. Amanita phalloides. In decades of picking I have never seen as many as here on Cambridge today. It not even usually common here. It's brutally poisonous, please share a warning to avoid it #mushtodon#fungi#mushrooms
Had a couple tenths of an inch rain last night so our trails, which are already pretty techy and sketch to begin with were quite spicy on our Tuesday morning group ride. Easier lines were taken or walked, but it was a fun outing. There's a resurgence of mushrooms, which I didn't think possible given this year’s bumper crop. One trail had a couple giant mushroom "circles” where large orange coral fungus were lined up around the perimeter. #mtb#mushrooms
Washington Post: Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you
"Now, a new assortment of AI-powered mushroom identifiers are popping up in the Apple, Google and OpenAI app stores. These tools use artificial intelligence to analyze photos or descriptions of mushrooms and compare them to known varieties....With its high stakes and frequent mess-ups, mushroom identification is a bad candidate for automation, but companies are doing it anyway..."
(maybe paywall)
Tired of insta and etsy, starting my mastodon journey today!
So let me do an #introduction post. I make ceramics and porcelain in a small studio in Berlin.
Sometimes practical, but mostly experimenting with the artistic side.
German and English are not my native, so expect me to translate a lot.
Somewhat randomly decided to take up growing #mushrooms. Can definitely endorse https://northspore.com mushroom blocks. Here are some Italian Oysters, Blue Oysters, and today’s ridiculous pile of Black King mushrooms…
Thinking an oyster mushroom & bok choi stir fry might be tonight’s side dish. 🤔
Collecting some #mushrooms for #dinner the first one I see is a hand-sized #boletus.. It looks a bit wet so I'll leave it for now. It'll be a backup ;-)
#Mushrooms and mycelia keep emerging as themes in nonfiction/self-help, and in #sciencefiction#scifi and #fantasy (The Last Of Us, Star Trek: Discovery, Motherland: Fort Salem & more), and in rhizomatic approaches to #activism. Like, what's up with that?
"The Future is Fungi: The Rise and Rhizomes of Mushroom Culture" is an upcoming online discussion event on July 11, 2023:
As some of you may recall, I started offering mobile wallpaper as a win-win way to get something fun and support what I do in lieu of a Ko-Fi and all that. The first two haven't been runaway hits per se but there's been enough interest to think it's a fair idea to continue to add more options. ❤️
So I hope you might enjoy seeing the latest choice!
Been working on a bit of an experiment to see if I can build a foraging map showing optimal areas based on recent weather conditions (in this case min/max temps and rainfall between 4-7 days ago....
Aussie Magic Mushroom Map (mushmap.0x4.au)
Been working on a bit of an experiment to see if I can build a foraging map showing optimal areas based on recent weather conditions (in this case min/max temps and rainfall between 4-7 days ago....